Duel HD, second will not open, but is shown everywhere!

[c7studios]

Hello wayne, i was wondering if you can help me!! I have two drives! Well the other night my computer crashed when i tried to reformat c and reinstall window on it. Well I needed a new harddrive anyway, so i bought a new drive. I installed it , then after i got windows up and running I added the second drive to my computer. It had alot of saved info on it. Well now i can't get the new drive to open and i can't look in it. I have a program that came with my drive to diagnose drives and it says it is fine. But when i click on d: in windows it says "A device on the system is not funtioning" do you have any ideas?? thanks Johnny Chandler
C7studios

 

[cbglenn]

Well, I am a little confused. Well, what is the software and if you can't even see your drive, how are you diagnosing it. Well,... Sorry.

One thing that surprised me one day was buying a new Intel MB for pretty cheap only to find out how cheap it was. The chipset does not support any more than one drive. You may want to check that out.

Also, make sure your drives' jumpers are set correctly, the CMOS shows them in the correct sequesnce (Master, Slave)and verify that you are not attemptng to put a 100GB drive on a MB that only supports up to 8GB. You may have to set a 32MB clip chip or do a Flash upgrade to your MB's BIOS.

Whatever you do, do not run FDISK to verify you still have the disk formatted.

Beyond that, you got me...